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<a href="food.html#OEI">OE Introduction</a></td>
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<a href="food.html#SBC">Scriftboc</a></td><td> &nbsp; <font face="arial" size="+1"><a href="food.html#CTH">Canons of Theodore</td>
<td> &nbsp; <font face="arial" size="+1"><a href="food.html#OEP">OE Penitential</td> <td> &nbsp; <font face="arial" size="+1"><a href="food.html#OEH">OE Handbook</td></tr></TABLE>
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	    <p>Note: All the penitentials contain numerous references to fasting, obviously relevant to the
	    role of food in the text. However, to include every reference to fasting would be to include
	    virtually all of some texts in this index. Therefore the index has been limited to those canons that
	    refer to food and eating or drinking in addition to fasting.
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	    <p><b><a href="CORP190_368.html#S31.06.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S31.06.02</a></b> "Fast each day in this Lenten period to the ninth hour
(nones) and
abstain from dairy foods and guard yourself againt the eight chief sins so that you do not commit
them." (Nones is the ninth hour from sunrise, usually said to be 3 p.m.;
hwit refers to such foods as cheese and eggs normally permitted
during fast time, when no meat was allowed, but to be abstained from in this case.)</p><p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_368.html#S31.06.03" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S31.06.03</a></b> "They are murder and theft and false oaths and avarice and
fornication and gluttony and calumny and false witness." </p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_369.html#S33.02.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.02.01</a></b> "We have read in the penitential that one must do penance for capital sins for one year or two or three on bread and water, and for lesser sins a week or a month, entirely the same."
</p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_369.html#S33.04.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.04.02</a></b> And he who must (fast) one week on bread and water, let
him sing 300 psalms kneeling or 320 without genuflecting just as it is said above.</p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_369.html#S33.05.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.05.01</a></b> And he who must do penance for the period of a month on bread and water, let him sing 1200 psalms with genuflection, and without
genuflection 1680.</p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_369.html#S33.05.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.05.02</a></b> And afterwards every day he may feed himself at midday
except on Wednesday and Friday, when he must fast until nones and abstain from meat and
wine--that is, any kind of drink (with) which one can become intoxicated. </p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_369.html#S33.05.03" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.05.03</a></b> And let him enjoy other foods such as God may give to
him, after that which he has sung. </p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_369.html#S33.05.04" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.05.04</a></b> And he who neither knows the psalms nor is able to fast,
every day let him give one penny or its equivalent to needy people;</p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_370.html#S33.06.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.06.01</a></b> and in every week let him fast one day to nones and the
next until vespers and enjoy what he might have, just as it is said above. (Note: 33.06.01 seems to contradict 33.05.04: if the penitent is not able fast, he cannot
comply with the second requirement of 33.06.01.) </p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_370.html#S33.07.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.07.01</a></b> And he who must do such a penance for a year, then let
him give 26 shillings in alms and in every week fast two days, just as it is said above, and
consider during the three fasting periods what his sustenance should be and give half of it in
alms.
</p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_370.html#S33.08.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.08.01</a></b> In the second year he is allowed to lighten his penance
from Christmas to the Twelfth Day and from Easter to Pentecost. </p></div2>
</p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_370.html#S33.09.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.09.01</a></b> And he who is not able to do penance for his sins, as it is
said above, in the first year let him distribute 26 shillings in alms, and in the second year
20 shillings, and in the third year 18. That is, 64 shillings. 
</p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_370.html#S33.10.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.10.01</a></b> And the powerful man should know that God has (given)
him great prosperity and posessions in this life to forsake. (Here is) how he ought to do penance
for his capital sins:
</p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_370.html#S33.10.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.10.02</a></b> Let him
take up the Gospel and read therein how Zacchaeus spoke to the Lord when he received him in
his
house for a feast.
</p>
<p><b><a href="CORP190_371.html#S33.11.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S33.11.01</a></b> And in addition to these good works that we have
ordained above, let him free men and release those who are in captivity. And from the day that he
leaves
off his unrighteous works let him not perform them again, lest he become like the dog who eats
what he has already vomited. </p>

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		<p><b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.04.01</a></b> Whoever releases
seed into the mouth is to fast 7 winters.</p>
	
		<p><b><a href="JUNIUS_88b.html#X04.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">
X04.02.01</a></b> If he steals or eats
carrion and knows it, he is to fast
7 days.  If he is 20 years old and does any such thing, he is to fast for 20 nights.</p>

	
	    <p><b><a href="JUNIUS_89a.html#X05.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X05.01.01</a></b> Whichever married
man has intercourse with his wife during the menstrual period is to fast 40 days.  And whoever drinks a man's blood or his seed is to
fast for 5 winters.</p>
	 <p><b><a href="JUNIUS_90a.html#X08.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X08.06.01</a></b> A baptized person is
not allowed to eat with a
catechumen nor give him the kiss; how much more so ought he not (do this) with a
heathen.</p><p>
  	        
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_90b.html#X09.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X09.04.01</a></b>  If a man has a third wife, both of them must fast two days each week, and during the 3 40-day fasting periods neither one of them may eat meat.</p> 
	    	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_91b.html#X11.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X11.06.01</a></b>  Whoever it is who is in an illicit intercourse or marriage,
	    nevertheless one is allowed to eat whatever food that he has, for the prophet said:  "The
	    earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof." <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'Source: Psalm 24:1. From the source it is clear that \'one\' refers to other Christians who may eat the food of the one in an illicit union (he would of course eat his own food).');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"></span>
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_93b.html#X14.08.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X14.08.01</a></b>  A woman who mixes a man's seed in her food and then
	    eats it so she be more agreeable to the male is to fast for 3 winters. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_94a.html#X15.11.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X15.11.01</a></b>  A woman who drinks her husband's blood as a remedy is to fast 40 nights. 
	    </p>
	    	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_94b.html#X16.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X16.04.01</a></b>  Whichever man eats food that has been consecrated to
	    devils and afterwards confesses to the priest, the priest is to discern what rank the man has, or
	    what age, or how skilled the man is, and then he is to judge as he thinks is wisest.
	    </p>
	    
	     <p><b><a href="JUNIUS_96b.html#X19.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X19.03.01</a></b>  Among the Greeks
deacons are allowed neither to break holy bread nor to read the collect nor to say the "Dominus vobiscum."</p>

	    
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_97a.html#X20.07.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X20.07.01</a></b>   There are 3 fasts in a year, each of them for all the people: that is, 40 nights before Easter, when we deliver the tenth-part (of the) treasure of the year (i.e., pay tithes); 40 nights before Christmas, when we pray for all people and read prayers, and the 40 nights after Pentecost.</p>
	    	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_97a.html#X21.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X21.01.01</a></b> On the day before
Christmas, at nones, after Mass has
been celebrated, the Romans (have their) feast.<note type="textual" place="unspecified" anchored="yes"> "gereordian" is translated here as "to feast" since it is Christmas Eve. In the OE Introduction, 33.05.02, the same verb is translated as to eat, since it is a daily meal that is in question.</note> The Greeks (wait) until the evening after vespers and Mass
have been said, and then they dine.</p>
	    
	    
	     <p><b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">
X22.04.01</a></b>  If someone throws up the host, he is to fast 40 nights.</p>

 <p><b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">
X22.05.01</a></b>  If he vomits because of [drunkenness or gluttony or] illness, he is to fast 7 days or is to sing two psalters. (Note: The phrase in brackets added in margin. The OE gives a fragmentary version of Egbert XI.8, which allows for more
cases. See Hadden and Stubbs, p. 427: the more stringent penances apply "si non infirmitatis
causa," for one who vomits without being ill.)</p>


 <p><b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.08.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript"> X22.08.01</a></b>  If a mouse eats the
Eucharist through the carelessness of the man who ought to keep it, he is to fast 40 or 30 nights.</p>

	    
	    
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X22.12.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.12.01</a></b> Whoever eats before
he goes to Eucharist and after
that receives the Eucharist is to fast 7 nights.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b>X23.01.00</b>  XXV  Concerning consecrated food and that which is eaten in the world 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X23.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.01.01</a></b>  If one loses consecrated food, however small, or
	    newly blessed bread, or blessed salt or incense, or anything similar, he is to fast 7 nights. If it
	    be a greater quantity and holier, let the fast be the greater.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X23.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.02.01</a></b>  Whoever eats carrion and does not know it is to fast forty days or thirty days.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X23.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.03.01</a></b>  Whoever of necessity eats food that has been seized and does not know it, if 
	    he is healthy and strong and does not know it, he is to fast forty nights.  If he
	    does it often, he is to fast during the three fasting periods or an entire year.  
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X23.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.04.01</a></b>  Whoever eats the scabs of his body or worms, or drinks urine or eats feces, 
	    if he is a child or a young man, let him be flogged; if it is an adult man, he is to
	    fast one year or the three fasting periods; either (punishment) is under the bishop's hand.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99a.html#X23.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.05.01</a></b>  Whoever eats anything of that which a dog or mouse or weasel ate, and he knows it, 
	    is to sing one hundred psalms; if he did not know it, he is to sing fifty psalms.  
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99a.html#X23.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.06.01</a></b>  Whoever gives to another drink in which there is a dead
	    mouse or a drowned weasel, if he is a layman he is to fast three nights, if a monk he is to sing
	    three hundred psalms.  If he did not know it before and knows it afterwards, he is to sing the psalter. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99a.html#X23.07.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.07.01</a></b>  Whoever eats any blood in half-cooked meat, he if did not
	    know it, he is to fast seven days.  (Later correction: he is to fast three days or sing the psalter; 
	    if he knows it, he is to fast seven days).
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99a.html#X23.08.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.08.01</a></b>  Whoever unknowingly swallows his own
	    blood with saliva, that is not a sin.  
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99a.html#X23.09.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.09.01</a></b>  The Greeks do not permit any man to have carrion, but they
	    make shoes of the hide of dead cattle and also make use of the wool and horns, although they do
	    not wish to wear these materials during sacred work.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99a.html#X24.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X24.01.01</a></b>  If swine eat carrion and taste man's blood, we nevertheless
	    believe that they are not to be disposed of; however, one may not eat them until they are made
	    clean again. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99a.html#X24.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X24.02.01</a></b>  If a hen drink man's blood, one is allowed to eat it three months later; 
	    but for this we do not have ancient authority.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99b.html#X24.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X24.03.01</a></b>  [Animals torn by] wolves and dogs are not to be eaten,
	    even if they were living [when they] received death by rending, except the one case in which 
	    they are able to survive the deathblow; but one should give them to dogs and swine.  
	    [OE corrupt; translation uncertain.]</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99b.html#X25.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X25.01.01</a></b>  Fish may be eaten even though they are found dead, because
	    they are of another kind.
	    </p>  
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99b.html#X25.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X25.02.01</a></b>  Horse meat is not forbidden, although many tribes do not
	    want to eat it. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99b.html#X25.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X25.03.01</a></b>  Birds and other animals that are strangled in nets are not
	    to be eaten, nor even if they are torn to pieces by hawks; if it is found dead, 
	    it is not to be eaten afterwards, because it is enjoined in the Acts of the Apostles, 
	    "Abstain from fornication, from that which is suffocated, from blood, and from idolatry" (Acts 15:29).  
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99b.html#X25.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X25.04.01</a></b>  One is allowed to eat hares and they are good for dysentery
	    and diarrhea, and one can mix their bile with pepper to cure mouth sores.  
	    </p>
	    <p
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_99b.html#X26.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.01.01</a></b>  If bees kill someone
let them be killed quickly, and one is allowed to eat the honey they produced.</p>
	    <p
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_100a.html#X26.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.02.01</a></b>  If a little pig falls
(into liquid) and is taken out alive, one
should sprinkle that water with holy water and perfume it with incense.  If the animal is dead,
one cannot give the liquid to anyone (and) should pour it out.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_100a.html#X26.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.03.01</a></b>  If someone with unclean hands touches someone's food, or	
	    a dog or a cat or a mouse or any other unclean animal touches it, Theodore said that was no harm
	    to him.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_100a.html#X26.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.04.01</a></b>  If a mouse or a weasel
falls into a large amount of liquid
and is dead there, one is to sprinkle it with holy water and drink it.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_100a.html#X26.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.05.01</a></b>  If someone of
necessity eats an animal that is unclean, that is no harm to him.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_100a.html#X26.07.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.07.01</a></b>  It is permitted for a sick person that he partake of food at any time that he wishes.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="JUNIUS_100b.html#X26.09.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.09.01</a></b>  If someone wishes to relieve a day's fast with alms, he is
	    to give food for a day for 1 day to 2 or 3 men, or sing the psalter, if it is summer; if  it
	    is harvest (fall) or Lent (spring), he is to sing 100 psalms; if it is winter, 50 psalms.
	    </p>
	    <br>
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	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_146a.html#B61.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B61.02.01</a></b>  So that it seems fitting to us to cut them off with the two-edged sword from the holy word of God, lest because they have taken the handmaidens of God in marriage the field of these good lands be filled with the bushes of evil weeds.<span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'Evil weeds endanger the food crop. The analogy contrasts the fertility of these forbidden marriages between form	er nuns and laymen with the power of weeds to choke good plants.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"></span>	    
	    </p>
 	    
	<p><b><a href="BX8558_147r.html#B62.02.01" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">B62.02.01</a></b> Those who do not know whether they are baptized,
and
allow themselves to be baptized again, that is as if they crucified Christ again. Let them fast as
long as they live every Friday and the three fasting periods on one meal.</p>

    <p><b><a href="BX8558_147r.html#B63.01.01" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">B63.01.01</a></b> Concerning work on Sunday. The Greeks and the
Romans row and ride but one may neither bake bread or travel in a cart unless going to
church; nor may men bathe on Sundays.</p> 

<p> <b><a href="BX8558_147r.html#B63.03.01" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">B63.03.01</a></b>Those who work on Sunday, the first time the Greeks
reprove them sharply; the second time they take something from those who work; and the third
time (they take) a third of that with which they were proven guilty. If they are in servitude and
they do it of their own will, they are to be flogged; and if they are free men, they must fast for
seven nights from meat and ale. </p>

<p> <b><a href="BX8558_147v.html#B64.01.01" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">B64.01.01</a></b> The animals that are torn by wolves and dogs are not to
be eaten by men but by swine and dogs, nor a hart nor a roe if they be found dead.</p>


 	    
 	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_147b.html#B64.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B64.03.01</a></b>  And if it happens that swine eat dead flesh (carrion), or hens
	    (drink) man's blood, we do not believe that they are to be thrown away. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_147b.html#B64.03.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B64.03.02</a></b>  Birds and other animals are not allowed to be eaten if
	    they are strangled in nets, nor even  if a hawk bit them, if  they are found dead. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_147b.html#B64.03.03" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B64.03.03</a></b>  The four sayings of special importance in the Acts of the
	    Apostles thus command that man restrain himself from fornication, from strangled animals,
	    from blood, and from idolatry.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_147b.html#B64.03.04" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B64.03.04</a></b>  We do not forbid horse's flesh, but it is not customary to eat it.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_147b.html#B64.03.05" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B64.03.05</a></b>  It is permitted to eat rabbit, and it is good for dysentery, and
	    its gall is very good mixed with pepper against internal pain and against mouth
	    sores.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_148a.html#B65.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B65.02.01</a></b>  Whoever is married twice, man or woman, is to fast one year, and afterwards on Wednesdays and Fridays, and on the other fasting periods forgo meat, and nevertheless not put away his wife quickly.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_148a.html#B65.02.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B65.02.02</a></b>  If a man is married three times, or a woman (weds a man three times), or even more times, they must fast for 4 years and, as long as they live, they must fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, and during the other fasting periods forgo meat. And nevertheless they are not to be separated if they are united in a proper marriage.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_149a.html#B66.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B66.06.01</a></b>  If a layman presses down on and kill his own child, he must fast one year on bread and water and for two years forgo meat and ale and keep himself from every woman for as long as he does penance.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_149a.html#B68.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B68.04.01</a></b>  He who eats flesh of animals that have died of natural
	    causes must fast for 40 days.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_149a.html#B68.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B68.04.02</a></b>  If hunger drives him to it, then it does not injure
	    him.
	    </p>
	
	<p><b><a href="BX8558_150r.html#B75.03.01" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">B75.03.01</a></b> Who ejaculates seed into the mouth, that is the worst evil.
</p> 

	
	        <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_1501.html#B75.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B75.05.01</a></b>  If a brother fornicates with his natural brother through the mingling of their bodies, he must fast for 15 winters without meat.
	     </p>
	        <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_150a.html#B75.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B75.06.01</a></b>  If a mother fornicates with her little son ("on hire"?), she must not taste meat for 3 years and fast 1 day in the week up to eventide.
	    </p>
	        <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_150b.html#B76.01.04" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B76.01.04</a></b>  If he steals a consecrated thing, he is to fast for 3 years without meat.
	    </p>
	        <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_150b.html#B76.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B76.02.01</a></b>  If a layman slays another for hatred, if he will not lay down his weapons, he is to fast for 7 years, 3 (years) without meat and ale.
	    </p>
	    
	    <p> <b><a href="BX8558_150r.html#B76.03.04" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">
B76.03.04</a></b>if he slays another through drunkenness or through
some other means, he is to fast 3 years or more; </p>

	    	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_151a.html#B76.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B76.06.01</a></b>  Whoever drinks blood or semen shall fast for 3
	    years.
	    </p> 
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_151a.html#B76.06.03" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B76.06.03</a></b>  If without reason someone with unclean hands touches his meat or (if) a dog or a cat or mouse or animal (that has eaten) unclean blood unknowingly (touches it) there is no harm done. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_151a.html#B76.06.04" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B76.06.04</a></b>  And if anyone of necessity eats an animal that appears unclean, a bird or a wild beast, that does not harm him.
	     </p>
			<p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_151b.html#B76.06.08" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">B76.06.08</a></b>  If a bird's dung falls into water, it (the dung) is to be taken
	    out and holy water is to be sprinkled on it, and then the food (i.e., the water) is clean.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_151b.html#B76.06.09" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">B76.06.09</a></b>  Therefore, that which is polluted with blood or with any
	    unclean thing, if someone eats it and does not know (that it is unclean), that does not harm him. 
	    If he knows it, he must repent for it according to the measure of the pollution.  
	    </p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_152a.html#B77.04.02" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">B77.04.02</a></b>  If she is a virgin, he is to fast for 1 year without meat and ale and mead.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_153a.html#B78.02.01" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">B78.02.01</a></b>  Swine who drink man's blood may be eaten. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="BX8558_153a.html#B78.02.02" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">B78.02.02</a></b>  But if they tear dead men it is not permitted that they are
	    to be eaten before a year has passed, so that that flesh has gone out from them. 
	    </p>
	    
	    <p> <b><a href="BX8558_153r.html#B78.06.01" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">
B78.06.01</a></b>Three fasts in the year are applicable for all the people: 
40 days before Easter when we should repay a one-tenth portion of that year's (fruits). And 40
days before the Lord's birth, and after Pentecost, that is 50 nights after Easter, (also) 40 days.
</p>

	    <br>
	    <h3 style="border-bottom: 3px double rgb(98, 108, 155); font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(98, 108, 155); font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: 0.1em; width: 100%;"><a name="OEP">4.</a> OE Penitential</h3>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_1a.html#Y41.03.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y41.03.00</a></b> Concerning those who yearn for repentance and "food for a journey" (that is, the body of
	    Christ) because of terror of death and concerning those for whom speech fails before his
	    confessor comes to him.  
	    </p>
	
	
	<p><b><a href="LAUD482_3a.html#41.08.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">
Y41.08.02</a></b> These are the vanities of this world:  first is pride, and
hatred, and envy, and anger, and theft, and drunkenness, and luxury, and fornication; witchcraft,
and avarice, and robbery, and sorcery, and manslaughter, and many other similar
things.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_5b.html#Y42.01.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.01.01</a></b> (If) a layman kills another without wrongdoing, he
is to fast 7 years, 3 on bread and water and 4 as his confessor prescribes for him, and after 7
years of penance he is to repent his misdeeds earnestly to the extent that he is able if he wishes to have complete forgiveness from God.  For it
is unknown to him how acceptable to God his penances were.</p>
</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#Y42.01.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.01.02</a></b> He who wishes to kill another and is unable to perform
his wish fully is to fast for 3 years, one on bread and water and 2 years as his confessor 
prescribes.
</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#Y42.01.03" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.01.03</a></b> If a layman slay a man forcibly, he is to fast 3 years, 1
on bread and water, and 2 as his confessor instructs him.  If it is a subdeacon, he is to
fast for 6 years; if it is a deacon, he is to fast for 7 years; if it is a masspriest, he it is to fast
for 10 years and if a bishop, for 12 years.</p>
</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#Y42.01.04" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.01.04</a></b> If anyone strikes his child dead unwillingly, he is to fast
3 years, 1 on bread and water and 2 as his confessor prescribes for him.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#42.01.05" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.01.05</a></b> If a bishop or a masspriest slay someone, he is to forfeit his orders.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#42.02.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.02.01</a></b> If a woman kills her child inside her
with drink or with various other things, or destroys it after it comes forth, she is to fast 10
years, 3 on bread and water and 7 as her confessor mercifully wishes to instruct her.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_7a.html#42.07.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.07.01</a></b>  If a man commits adultery, he is to fast 7 years, 3 days each week on bread and water, and if a woman takes another man instead of
her rightful lord, the same (penance) is due to her.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_7a.html#42.10.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.10.01</a></b>  If any man fornicates with another's lawful woman, or a
a woman with another woman's lawful husband, he or she is to fast 7 years, 3 on bread and
water and 4 as his or her confessor prescribes for him or her.
</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_9a.html#42.22.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.22.01</a></b>  If any man promises his alms-offering or brings it to some
well or stone or to a tree or to any other created thing except to God's church, in God's name, he
is to fast 3 years on bread and water. And although he presumes at some such place that he eats
and drinks but [lit. and] brings no offering, nevertheless he is to fast 1 year on bread and water.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_7a.html#42.23.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.23.01</a></b>  It is indeed not permitted to any Christian man that he
practice useless auguries as heathen men do, that is that they believe in the sun and the
moon and the stars' course and seek time-auguries to begin their events, nor [is] gathering herbs
[permitted] with any incantation other than with the Pater Noster and with the Credo or with
some prayer that belongs to God.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_9b.html#42.24.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.24.02</a></b> 
And if anyone is compelled to perjure himself or if he not
know it was false, he is to fast 3 years, 1 year on bread and water and 2 as his confessor
prescribes for him.  And if it is possible for him, he is to free one man for God's
love.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_9b.html#42.25.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.25.02</a></b> 
If anyone steal a thing of middling value, he is to return
the stolen object to him who owns it and fast 1 year on bread and water; and if he does not
have the stolen thing to return, he is to fast 3 years on bread and water.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_11b.html#42.29.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.29.01</a></b>  The man who for whatever discord fights with his
neighbor and is so [set] on that fight that he gives oaths that he will accept no peace from anyone
who has offended against him, he is to be excommunicated.  If he wishes to reform and accept
peace, he is to fast 1 year for reason for his oath and 3 Lenten fasts (i.e., 3 40-day fasting periods)
on bread and water, and, in
addition, for those years he is to fast as his confessor prescribes for him.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_11b.html#42.30.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.30.02</a></b> If anyone for whatever wicked avarice do this, the holy
books prescribe 3 years of fasting, 1 year on bread and water and 2 years as his confessor
prescribes for him.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_13a.html#Y43.14.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y43.14.02</a></b>  He wisely sent an answer to him and said that every
	    servant of God should earnestly consider from what cause the nightly pollution came.  It comes
	    to the minds of sleeping ones from three things:  sometimes because of natural infirmity,
	    sometimes because of excess of food and drink, and sometimes also because the man thought
	    and dwelled on vain and forbidden things during the day, then (so that) what he thought about
	    waking during the day, that came to him sleeping at night.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_13a.html#Y43.14.04" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y43.14.04</a></b>  And if it happens because of excess of food and drink, he
	    is guilty and yet nevertheless, the Eucharist is not forbidden to him nor to sing mass, if he is a
	    masspriest, if it is a case of extreme need and there is no other priest who can perform the
	    services.  If there is another who is able to perform the services, it is better for him that he forgo
	    it (Eucharist, or Mass) that day and ask for forgiveness for himself with psalms and
	    alms.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_13b.html#Y43.16.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y43.16.02</a></b>  
Let him be warned so that the terrible words that the Savior spoke concerning the shepherds of the people of Israel not be
uttered about him, when he (the Savior) said, "Woe, you shepherds, who drank the milk of the ewes and with their wool dressed
yourselves and killed those that were fat. And there were weak ones you did not make strong, and sick ones you did not heal, and broken ones you did not bind, and
scattered ones you did not gather together, and lost ones you did not seek.  Now my whole flock
is scattered because they did not have a shepherd and they have become food for all the
wild beasts."
	    <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'Quotation from Ezek. 34:2-5.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"></span> 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_14a.html#Y44.01.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.01.01</a></b>  If any bishop slays a man, he is to forfeit his orders and
	    fast 12 years, 7 on bread and water, and for 5 years he is to fast 3 days each week, and on the
	    others enjoy his food.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_14a.html#Y44.01.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.01.02</a></b>  If a masspriest or a monk slays someone he is to forfeit
	    his orders and fast 10 years, 5 on bread and water, and for the other 5 years he is to fast 3 days
	    each week and on the others enjoy his food.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_14a.html#Y44.01.03" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.01.03</a></b>  If a deacon slay someone, he is to forfeit his orders and fast 7 years, 4 on bread 
	    and water, and for 3 years he is to fast 3 days each week, and on the others enjoy his food.
	    </p> 
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_14b.html#Y44.01.04" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.01.04</a></b>  If a cleric slay someone, he is to fast 6 years, 4 on bread
	    and water and for 2 years he is to fast 3 days each week, and on the others enjoy his food. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_14b.html#Y44.01.05" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.01.05</a></b>  If a layman slay someone, he is to fast 5 years, 3 on bread
	    and water, and for 2 years he is to fast 3 days each week, and on the others enjoy his food.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_14b.html#Y44.05.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.05.01</a></b>  If anyone fornicate with a nun who is wedded to God
	    Himself as a bride: if a bishop does it, he is to fast 12 years, 7 on bread and water and for 5 years
	    he is to fast 3 days each week on bread and water, and on the others enjoy his food. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_14b.html#Y44.05.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.05.02</a></b>  If it is a masspriest or monk, he is to fast 10 years, 5 on
	    bread and water and for 5 years he is to fast 3 days each week on bread and water, and on the
	    others enjoy his food without meat only.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.05.03" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.05.03</a></b>  If it is a deacon, he is to fast 7 years, 3 on bread and
	    water and for 4 fast 3 days each week on bread and water, and on the others enjoy his food
	    without meat only.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.05.04" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.05.04</a></b>  If it is a cleric or layman, he is to fast 6 years, 3 on bread
	    and water and for 3 fast 3 days each week on bread and water, and on the others enjoy his food
	    without meat only, and the nun is to fast 10 years just as it is written above concerning
	    masspriests.
	    </p>  
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.06.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.06.01</a></b>If anyone wishes to fornicate with a nun and she does not consent, he is to fast 1 year on bread and water for his unrighteous desire.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.08.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.08.01</a></b>If anyone wishes to fornicate unlawfully with a woman and she does not consent, he is to fast 40 days and nights on bread and water.</p>
	       <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.09.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.09.01</a></b>  If anyone deprive another of his daughter by force, he is
	    to make amends to the relative and each of them is to fast 1 year on Wednesdays and Fridays on
	    bread and water and on the other days partake of their food except for meat, and afterwards he is
	    to take her in lawful marriage if the relative wishes it.
	    </p>
   <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_15b.html#Y44.10.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.10.01</a></b>
 If the devil so far undermines anyone that he fornicates with animals, he is to confess to his confessor and fast 15 years, 8 on bread and water and for 7 years to fast the 3 forty-day periods on bread and water, one Lenten fasting period (i.e., 40 days) before Easter, another during Pentecost, and the third before midwinter, and ever after fast on Wednesdays and Fridays as long as he lives.</p>
		<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_15b.html#Y44.11.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.11.01</a></b>  If anyone is in the habit that he soils himself willingly, he is to fast 3 years, in each of those years three Lenten fasts (i.e., 3 40-day periods) on bread and water, and the other days he is to forgo meat every day except on Sunday alone.
	   </p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_15b.html#Y44.12.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.12.01</a></b>	  If any one kill another with witchcraft, he is to fast 7 years, 3 years on bread and water and for 4 years (he is to fast) 3 days each week on bread and water.   </p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_15b.html#Y44.13.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.13.01</a></b> If someone drives a stake into another man, he is to fast 3 years, 1 year on bread and water and for 2 years he is to fast 3 days each week on bread and water; and if the man is dead because of the stake, then he is to fast 7 years as it is written above.</p>
	   	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_15b.html#Y44.14.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.14.01</a></b>  If anyone use witchcraft in regard to another's desire and gives to him to eat or drink or [practices] any kind of incantation so that their love be the greater because of it: if a layman does it, he is to fast half a year on Wednesdays and Fridays on bread and water and the other days partake of his meals without meat.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16a.html#Y44.14.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.14.02</a></b>  If it is a cleric, he is to fast 1 year for 2 days [each week] on bread and water and the other days forgo meat.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16a.html#Y44.14.03" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.14.03</a></b>  If it is a deacon, he is to fast 3 years for 2 days each week on bread and water and every other day to forgo meat.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16a.html#Y44.14.04" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.14.04</a></b>  If it is a masspriest, he is to fast 5 years, 1 year on bread and water and for 4 years every Friday on bread and water and the other days forgo meat.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16a.html#Y44.15.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.15.01</a></b>  If anyone practice auguries or omens or keep a vigil at any well or at any other establishment except at God's church, he is to fast 3 years, 1 on bread and water and for 2 years on Wednesdays and Fridays (he is to fast) on bread and water and on the other days partake of his meals except for meat only. 
	    </p>
	    	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16a.html#Y44.17.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.17.01</a></b>  If any woman deliberately destroys her child in herself
	    with drink or murder it with anything, she is to fast for 7 years, 3 on bread and water and for 4
	    years (she is to fast) 3 days each week on bread and water and on the others partake of her food
	    without meat. <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'Compare Y42.02.01, which assigns a different penance (10 years, not 7 years), for abortion.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"></span>
	    </p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16b.html#Y44.18.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.18.01</a></b>
 If a layman wound another, he is to make amends to him for the wound and obtain the remedy for him and fast 1 40-day period before midwinter every other day on bread and water.</p>
	   
<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16b.html#Y44.18.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.18.02</a></b>
 If a cleric wound someone, he is to fast 2 40-day periods, one before midsummer and another before midwinter, every other day on bread and water. Note: MSS XY are missing 14.18.02, found in MSS BS. Raith brackets the omitted material, p. 56, lines 3-5.</p>  
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16b.html#Y44.19.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.19.01</a></b> If someone steals food or clothes and hunger or nakedness drives him to it, he is to fast 3 weeks on bread and water if he is able to return what is stolen. And one should not compel him to fast but should forgive him for God's love. </p>
	    	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16b.html#Y44.20.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.20.01</a></b>
 If someone steals food or clothes and hunger or nakedness drives him to it, he is to fast 3 weeks on bread and water if he is able to return what is stolen. And one should not compel him to fast but should forgive him for God's love.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16b.html#Y44.21.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.21.01</a></b>
 If any Christian man sells his own child for any price, or his nearest kin, he is to have no communion with Christian men until he has released him (the sold one) from that servitude. If he is not able to obtain it, he is to distribute as great a stipend on his behalf as he previously received for him, and he is to release another from servitude and to manumit him, and he is to fast 7 weeks on bread and water. And if he does not have the property so that he can release him, then he is to fast 27 weeks on bread and water.
	</p> 
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17a.html#Y44.22.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.22.01</a></b>  If anyone drinks blood or eats decayed flesh, and he did not do it of necessity, he is to fast for 12 weeks every other day on bread and water. And if he does it of necessity, he is to fast 3 days on bread and water.</p> 
   	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17a.html#Y44.23.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.23.01</a></b> If anyone shoots a deer with an arrow and it nevertheless escapes, and one finds it dead three days later, and a dog or a wolf or fox or bear has gnawed it,
or any other wild animal, no Christian man is to consume it.
	    </p>
   	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17a.html#Y44.24.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.24.01</a></b>  If a wolf kills any sort of cattle and it (the cattle) is dead because of that, no Christian man is to consume it. And if he does so, he is to fast 4 weeks on bread and water; and if it lives and one kills it afterward, he is to partake of it lawfully.
	</p>
	<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17a.html#Y44.25.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.25.01</a></b>   If any animal is strangled in a net, it is not permitted for anyone to partake of it. If anyone partakes of it, he is to fast 4 weeks every other day on bread and water.
	</p>
	
	<p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17a.html#Y44.26.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.26.01</a></b>    If anyone find a dead fish in a fishpond and he eats it, he is to fast 4 weeks on Wednesdays and Fridays on bread and water and the other days forgo meat. And if one finds a dead fish in a stream, he may partake of it lawfully.
	</p>
	
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17a.html#Y44.27.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.27.01</a></b>  If any one in orders go hunting, if he is a cleric, he is to
	    forgo meat for 12 months; a deacon, 2  years; a
	    masspriest, 3 years; a bishop, 7 years.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17b.html#Y44.28.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.28.01</a></b>  If a bishop or any man in orders often and deliberately drinks to excess, either he ceases or he forfeits orders.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17b.html#Y44.29.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.29.01</a></b>  If a monk vomit because of drunkenness, he is to fast 30 days.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17b.html#Y44.29.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.29.02</a></b>  If a masspriest or a deacon vomit because of drunkenness,
	    he is to fast 40 days. <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'MSS XS continue: 44.29.03 If a layman holding orthodox beliefs vomit because of drunkenness he is to fast for 40 days.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"></span>
	    </p>
	    
	    <p><b><a href="BX8558_143v.html#44.29.03" Title="Goes to the Brussels manuscript">
Y44.29.03</a></b> If a layman holding
orthodox beliefs vomits because of drunkenness, he is to fast for 40 days. Note: MSS BS include this canon, which is omitted in XY.</p>
	    
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17b.html#Y44.30.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.30.01</a></b>  Whoever through deceit causes another to be drunk, he is
	    to fast 40 days.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17b.html#Y44.31.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.31.01</a></b>  If bees kill someone let them be killed quickly, and one is
	    to eat the honey they have produced.
	    </p> 
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17b.html#Y44.32.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.32.01</a></b>  If a little mouse falls into water, one is to do away with it 
	    and sprinkle that water with holy water. If the animal is alive, one is to use that water and if it is
	    dead, one is to throw it out and clean the vessel.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_17b.html#Y44.32.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.32.02</a></b>  It is said in another place that if a great deal of that food is
	    altogether (in which a small animal has died), one is to sprinkle it with holy water and eat if he
	    needs it, and that then (only) out of necessity. <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'Raith notes the phrase \'in quo mus vel mustela immersa moritur,\' \'in which a mouse or a weasel is submerged,\' in the source, the Penitential of Theodore, Book 1, ch. 7.9. This sentence is translated more fully in the Scriftboc; see XYS26.04.01; see also 44.36.01 below.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"></span>
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_18a.html#Y44.35.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.35.01</a></b>  Whoever eats anything of that which a dog or mouse ate
	    or a weasel defiled, and he knows it, is to sing 100 psalms; if he does not know it, he is to sing
	    50 psalms.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_18a.html#Y44.36.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.36.01</a></b>  (Concerning) whoever gives to another drink in which
	    there is a mouse or a weasel drowned: if he is a layman he is to fast three nights; if a monk he is
	    to sing three hundred psalms.  If he did not know it before and knows it afterwards, he is to sing the
	    psalter.  
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_18a.html#Y44.37.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.37.01</a></b>  Whoever eats any blood in half-cooked meat, if he did not
	    know it, he is to fast 3 days or sing the psalter; if he knows it, he is to fast 7 days.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_18a.html#Y44.38.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.38.01</a></b>  Whoever unknowingly swallows his own blood with
	    saliva, that is not a sin.  
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_18a.html#Y44.39.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.39.01</a></b>  If anyone through carelessness lose the Host, he is to fast
	    for 3 40-day periods every Friday on bread and water, and the other days partake of his food
	    without meat only.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_18a.html#44.42.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.42.01</a></b>  If someone throws up the host because of drunkenness, he
	    is to fast forty days.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_18a.html#44.43.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.43.01</a></b>  If he vomits because of illness, he is to fast seven days or
	    sing the psalter twice. 
	    </p>
	    
	    
		<p><b><a href="LAUD482_18b.html#44.45.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.45.01</a></b> If a dog eats that vomit, he (the man) is to fast 40
days. (Added in MS X: after one has vomited it.)
</p>
	    
	    
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_18b.html#44.47.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.47.01</a></b>  If a mouse eat the host through the carelessness of
	    the man who ought to keep it, he is to fast forty days.
	    </p>
   <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_18b.html#44.51.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.51.01</a></b> 
 Whoever eats before he goes to Eucharist and after that receives the Eucharist is to fast seven days.</p>
 
		<p><b><a href="LAUD482_18b.html#44.53.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript"> Y44.53.01</a></b> The servant of God who is soiled in his sleep is to arise and sing 7 psalms and bend his knees to earth at the end of every verse and fast for that in the morning on bread and water, or sing 30 psalms that seem best to him and at the end of each verse bend his knees to earth. </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_19a.html#44.54.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.54.01</a></b>  If a pig or a chicken or any sort of creature eat someone's
	    body or drink his blood, one is to slay that creature and give it to the dogs.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_19a.html#44.55.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.55.01</a></b>  If anyone burn another man's house, he is to fast 3 years
	    every other day on bread and water and the other day to nones (3 o'clock) and abstain from
	    meat.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_19a.html#44.56.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.56.01</a></b>  If any sort of creature fall into a water pit and one finds
	    it dead there, one is to scour the pit clean and sprinkle holy water on it.  And if anyone taste it
	    before that well is blessed, he is to fast 1 week on bread and water; if he does not know it, he is
	    to fast 1 day on bread and water. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_19a.html#44.57.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.57.01</a></b>  If anyone on account of his infirmity or his
	    weakness cannot endure the fast and the rigor that his confessor has prescribed for
	    him, it is permitted to him that with one Mass he can redeem a 12-day fast, and with 10 Masses
	    one can redeem a 4-month fast and with 20 masses one can redeem an 8-month fast and with 30
	    masses one can redeem a 12-month fast, if he wishes with true love of God to to intercede for
	    himself.
	    </p>
	    <br>
	    <h3 style="border-bottom: 3px double rgb(98, 108, 155); font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(98, 108, 155); font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: 0.1em; width: 100%;"><a name="OEH">5</a>. OE Handbook</h3>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_116.html#D52.02.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D52.02.02</a></b>  "I confess greediness in eating and drinking both before and
	    after time." 
	    </p>

<p><b><a href="CORP201_116.html#52.02.06" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D52.02.06</a></b>  "I confess all that I have ever seen with my eyes in
covetousness or calumny, or heard with my ears to ill use, or said to ill use with my mouth.
</p>




	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_115.html#D53.06.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D53.06.01</a></b>  At no time is wrongdoing allowed, and nevertheless one
	    must also most earnestly be on guard against it in festival seasons and in times of fasting and in festival
	    places.
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_117.html#D54.05.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.05.01</a></b>
 If a lay person slays another without fault, he is to fast 7 years on bread and water and then 4 years as his confessor instructs him, and after those 7 years of repentance, he is ever to repent his misdeeds diligently, to the extent that he may; for it is unknown how acceptable his penance was to God.
</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_117.html#D54.06.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.06.01</a></b>
 He who wishes to kill another and is unable to carry out his wish fully is to fast for 3 years, 1 on bread and water and 2 years as his confessor prescribes for him.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_117.html#D54.07.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.07.01</a></b>
If a lay person slays a man out of compulsion, he is to fast for 3 years, 1 on bread and water, and 2 as his confessor prescribes for him, and ever to repent his misdeeds. If it is a subdeacon (who slays another), he is to fast for 6 years; if it is a deacon, he is to fast for 7 years; if is a masspriest, he is to fast for 10 years; and if a bishop, for twelve years and repent ever after.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_117.html#D54.08.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.08.01</a></b>
If anyone smites his child to death unintentionally, he is to fast for 5 years, 3 on bread and water as above. </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.10.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.10.01</a></b>  If a woman kills her child while it is inside her, or after it
	    comes out, with drink or with diverse other things, she is to fast 10 years, three on bread and
	    water and seven as her priest mercifully teaches her, and repent it ever after. 
	    </p>
   <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.15.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.15.01</a></b>	    If one commits adultery he is to fast for 7 years, 3 days each week on bread and water, be it woman or man.</p>
   <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.17.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.17.02</a></b>
If a man fornicates with another's lawful spouse, or the wife with another's lawful spouse, he (or she) is to fast 7 years, 3 on bread and water and 4 as his (or her) confessor prescribes for him (or her) to do, and to repent his (or her) misdeeds ever after. </p>	    
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_119.html#D54.25.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.25.01</a></b>  If a masspriest or a monk kills a man, he is to forfeit his
	    rank and fast ten years, five on bread and water and for five (fast) three days of the week, and
	    on the others take his food, and repent his sins ever after. If a deacon (does this), eight years on
	    bread and water, and the other (years, as above? "tusum"?). If a cleric (does this), six years, four
	    on bread and water; if a layperson, five years, three on bread and water. 
	    </p>

<p><b><a href="CORP201_119.html#54.28.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">
D54.28.02</a></b>  If a masspriest or a monk or a deacon or a layman or a
cleric fornicates with a nun, each one of them is to fast as befits his rank, as for manslaughter,
and
ever after he shall forgo meat; and the nun (is to fast for) 10 years as the masspriest, and repent
ever after. </p>


<p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_119.html#D54.29.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.29.01</a></b>	 If anyone wishes to fornicate with a nun and she does not wish to, he is to fast for 1 year for that unrighteous wish on bread and water.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.30.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.30.01</a></b>	    If someone wishes to fornicate with another's lawful wife, and she does not wish to, he is to fast for the 3 fasting periods on bread and water, 1 in summer, 1 at harvest time, the third in the winter.</p>
<p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.31.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.31.01</a></b>	    If someone wishes to fornicate unlawfully with a woman, he is to fast for forty days on bread and water.</p>	    
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.32.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.32.01</a></b>  If anyone deprive another of his daughter, he must make
	    amends to the friend, and both of them fast one year on Wednesday
	    and Friday and the other days take their food, except for meat, and betake themselves into (take
	    one another in) lawful marriage. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.33.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.33.01</a></b>  If anyone fornicates with an animal, he is to fast fifteen
	    years, eight on bread and water and for seven, each year, the three forty-day periods and on
	    Wednesday and Friday as long as he live and repent his misdeed ever after. </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.34.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.34.01</a></b>  If someone pollute himself willingly, he is to fast for three
	    years on each of the three forty-day periods on bread and water and forgo meat every day except
	    Sunday. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.35.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.35.01</a></b>  If someone destroy another with witchcraft, he is to fast
	    three years on bread and water, and for four years (fast) three days each week on bread and water
	    and repent ever after. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.36.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.36.01</a></b>  If someone drive a stake into another he is to fast
	    three years, one year on bread and water and two (years) three days each week on bread and
	    water; and if he dies because of the stake, then he is to fast seven years as it is written here and
	    repent his offense ever after. 
	    </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.37.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.37.01</a></b>  If anyone performs witchcraft because of love of another
	    and gives him (something) in his food or drink or (puts him) under a magic spell, if it is a layman, he is
	    to fast a half year on Wednesdays and Fridays on bread and water, and the other days take his food, except meat; if it is
	    a cleric, one year as above, three days each week on bread and water; a deacon (is to fast) three
	    years, as above; a masspriest, five years, one on bread and water and for four every Friday on bread and
	    water, and the other days forgo meat.     </p>
	
	
		<p><b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.39.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.39.01</a></b>
If anyone suffocates a child in sleep so that it dies, he is to fast 3 years, 1 on bread and water and, for 2 years, 3 days in the week, and if it came about through drunkenness, he is to repent more deeply, as his confessor prescribes, and repent that ever after.</p>
		<p><b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.40.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.40.01</a></b>
If an unhealthy child dies a heathen, (responsibility for) it belongs to the priest. He is to forfeit his rank and repent it earnestly; and if it came about through the negligence of relatives (lit. friends, dear ones), they are to fast for 3 years on bread and water and, for 2 years, 3 days in the week and repent it ever after. </p>



		<p><b><a href="CORP201_121.html#55.05.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">
D55.05.01</a></b>  Then the physcian who must heal the wounds ought to be
wise and careful. One must first cure him (lit. them) through good teaching and with it do so that
he vomits the poison that is within him, that is, that he should cleanse himself first through
confession. </p>




	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_121.html#D55.06.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D55.06.01</a></b>  All men must vomit sins through good teaching with
	    confession just as man (vomits) poison through a good drink. 
	    </p> 
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_121.html#D55.07.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D55.07.01</a></b>  No physician can cure well before that poison is (cast)
	    out; nor can any man likewise teach/prescribe penance well to him who does not wish to
	    confess. No man can confess his sins without repentance, any more than he who has drunk poison may
	    become well unless he vomit the poison. 
	    </p> 
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_122.html#D55.10.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D55.10.01</a></b>  It is a deep penance that a layman lay aside his weapons and
	    wander widely barefoot and not one night be where he was on the one before, and fast greatly,
	    and watch, and pray day and night and willingly be weary, and be so unshorn that iron not come
	    on hair nor on nail, nor that he come into a warm bath, nor onto a soft bed, nor taste meat,
	    nor anything from which drunkenness come, nor that he come into church. </p> 
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_122.html#D55.14.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D55.14.01</a></b>  Let him free his own slaves and redeem their slaves from
	    other men to freedom, and also poor captured men, and feed the needy,
	    and clothe, house, warm, bathe, and bed them according to their own needs. Let him
	    everywhere earnestly seek intercession by mass singing and psalm singing and frequently, for his
	    Lord's mercy, himself suffer very greatly with severe abstinence from food and drink and every
	    bodily desire. 
	    </p>  
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_122.html#D55.15.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D55.15.01</a></b>   And he who has fewer means should do according to his
	    ability what he can. Let him tithe for God's love all that which he owns and take the measure of
	    himslf as often as he has occasion to, and often seek churches with his alms, and greet holy
	    places with his light, and give house-shelter and food and protection to those who have need of it, and fire and food and bed, and bathe and clothe and help the needy if he may. </p>
		<p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_124.html#D56.03.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D56.03.01</a></b> Let him receive assistance and first take with him twelve men and fast 3 days on bread and on green herbs and on water, and obtain in addition, howsoever he may, 7 times 120 men who shall also fast for him 3 days. Then will be fasted as many fasts as there are days in 7 years.</p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_124.html#D56.04.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D56.04.01</a></b> When a man fasts, then let one distribute to all God's needy the dishes that he would have used. And the 3 days that a man fasts, let him forgo every worldly occupation, and day and night, as most often as one can, let him remain in church and with a taper bought for charity earnestly watch there and call to God and ask forgiveness with a lamenting mind, and kneel often in the sign of the cross, sometimes up, sometimes down, prostrate himself, and try earnestly (so that he may) obtain tears from his eyes and weep for his sins. </p>
	    <p>
	    <b><a href="CORP201_124.html#D56.05.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D56.05.01</a></b> And let the man feed on those 3 days as many people in need as he can and on the fourth day bathe them all and shelter them and distribute possessions, and let the penitent be (busy) about washing their feet, and let one offer as many masses that day for him as can possibly ever be obtained. </p>
	    
	    
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